Light Thickens: 32 (Inspector Roderick Alleyn) - Softcover

Marsh, Ngaio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631940651 ISBN 13: 9781631940651

Publisher: Felony & Mayhem, 2016

Synopsis

The bad news: This is the last in Ngaio Marsh s marvelous Inspector Alleyn series. The good: It s one of her very best. The secret to Light Thickens success may lie in its combination of some of Marsh s greatest passions, including her native New Zealand in the person of, unusually, a Maori character and the theater. Indeed, the plot centers on a production of well, let s skirt disaster by calling it the Scottish play, a play that Dame Ngaio produced and directed several times. Among theater folk, the Scottish play is considered unlucky, so much so that tradition requires anyone who utters its proper name backstage to leave the building, spin around, spit, curse, and then request permission to re-enter. For Ngaio Marsh, however, it seems to have been quite the opposite: Light Thickens is a fine swansong, said England s Observer, and the Los Angeles Times agreed, saying No playwright could devise a better curtain than the one Dame Ngaio chose for her own career."

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Review:

‘Faithful to the hallowed conventions of English detection... a fine swansong.’
Observer

‘As always she writes most elegantly.’
Daily Telegraph

‘Still, quite simply, the greatest exponent of the classical English detective story.’
Daily Telegraph

From the Back Cover:

THE ALLEYN MYSTERIES

Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of 'Macbeth', the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck.

But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more that real: murder behind the scene.

Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience...

"Faithful to the hallowed conventions of English detection...a fine swan-song"
OBSERVER

"As always she writes most elegantly"
DAILY TELEGRAPH

"The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an express."
THE SUN

About this edition

• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1631940651
• ISBN 13: 9781631940651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264